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East Side Access ( ESA) is a public works project in New York City that extended the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) two miles from its Main Line in Queens to the new Grand Central Madison station under Grand Central Terminal on Manhattan 's East Side.
Gateway Program. The Gateway Program is a planned phased expansion and renovation of the Northeast Corridor (NEC) rail line between Newark, New Jersey, and New York City along right-of-way between Newark Penn Station and New York Penn Station. The project is to build new rail bridges in the New Jersey Meadowlands and new tunnels under Bergen ...
Grand Central Madison is a commuter rail terminal for the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) in the Midtown East neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. Part of the East Side Access project, the new terminal started construction in 2008 and opened on January 25, 2023. [5] The station sits beneath Grand Central Terminal, which serves the ...
Penn Station Access (PSA) is a public works project underway by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority in New York City. The goal of the project is to allow Metro-North Railroad commuter trains to access Penn Station on Manhattan 's West Side, using existing trackage owned by Amtrak.
A groundbreaking ceremony for Penn Station Access took place in the Bronx on December 9, 2022. Service is planned to begin in 2027 at the earliest. The opening of East Side Access in 2023 diverted some Long Island Rail Road trains to Grand Central Madison, therefore opening up slots at Penn Station for Metro-North service. During peak hours ...
East Side Access doesn't include a station on Roosevelt Island. You may be thinking of Roosevelt Island (IND 63rd Street Line station), which is on the upper level (New York City Subway) tracks of the 63rd St Tunnel. East Side Access will use the 63rd Street Tunnel, but only the lower level tracks set aside for LIRR use.
In conjunction with the East Side Access project, the MTA is working on two readiness projects that will increase capacity on the Port Washington Branch. The pocket track east of Great Neck station, located between the station and where the line becomes single-tracked, was extended eastward by 1,200 feet (370 m) to allow for storage of two ...
Franklin D. Roosevelt East River Drive, commonly called FDR Drive for short, is a controlled-access parkway on the east side of the New York City borough of Manhattan.It starts near South and Broad Streets, just north of the Battery Park Underpass, and runs north along the East River to the 125th Street / Robert F. Kennedy Bridge interchange, where it becomes Harlem River Drive.